Insurance Insights

Over the past few years, many of the nation’s small business owners have found it extremely difficult to obtain much in the way of financing from major lenders.

President Barack Obama recently named Maria Contreras-Sweet to the top position at the U.S. Small Business Administration, but what currently remains unclear is exactly what she is going to do once she finally takes office.

When they’re first starting to get new products or services off the ground, many small business owners may not know exactly how to price them as a means of making them a big hit in their local markets.

The last few years since the economic recovery began have largely been good ones for small businesses.

Marketing a small business is often one of the biggest challenges that many independent owners find themselves running into, as they may not know the exact ways in which they can best connect with consumers in their areas.

This year, a number of new federal employment rules are either already slated to go into place or likely to do so, and that could mean that many small business owners will have to change things around when it comes to their companies as a means of staying compliant.

In the past few years, the national economic recovery has likely been a boon for many small business owners, who have seen their bottom lines improve considerably.

The number of small businesses nationwide seems to be growing all the time, and it seems that soon the rolls of new owners may soon include more minority and young entrepreneurs who have dreams of making it on their own.

Every year, government decisions can have a major impact on the ways in which independently-owned companies do business, and this is almost certainly going to be the case once again in 2014.

Federal lawmakers recently introduced a proposal that was designed to help save the government money, but some experts say that it could also be problematic for many small business owners across the country.